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BWW Review: DEAD MAN WALKING Shines Light into the Darkness in Georgetown, TX
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts Department of Theatre presents DEAD MAN WALKING at the creative theatre in the round stage known as Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater. Located in the heart of Georgetown, Texas and more specifically, Southwestern University, director Kathleen Juhl gathers students...
BWW Review: CAMELOT - Royally Entertaining
CAMELOT by Lerner and Loewe, currently playing at the Georgetown Palace Theatre is certainly a bright, shining moment on stage....
BWW Review: DURANG DURANG Entertains Theatre-lovers in East Austin
DURANG DURANG, written by the historical theatre writer/director/actor Christopher Durang, is a farce presented by Oh Dragon Theatre Company. Directed by Dillon Yruegas, presents a creatively staged and lively cast of players to a curious group of onlookers trying to piece together what the collecti...
BWW Review: FIELD GUIDE is an Excitingly Experimental Evening
FIELD GUIDE, a work-in-progress by Rude Mechs, is currently in a second draft performance at the Off Center. Rude Mechs creates new works collaboratively, and with FIELD GUIDE they are actively engaging their audience to get feed back on what works and what doesn't in order to help shape the piece. ...
BWW Review: ANN Reminds Us How Much We Need Someone Like Her Today
ANN, written and performed by Emmy® Award winning actress Holland Taylor, is a one woman portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. Richards' persona was as big as the state itself and just as colorful. Originating at the Galveston Grand Opera, the show has played to sold-out audie...
BWW Review: SHE LOVES ME is a Heart Warming, Tuneful Delight
SHE LOVES ME is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. It is an adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo. Other adaptations include the films The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime and You've Got Mail...
BWW Review: BULL is a Riveting, Entertaining Look at Corporate Hell
I first discovered Mike Bartlett when I saw Cock last season. I have been eagerly waiting for more from him because of his wit and his skill at writing dialogue. He has come from relative obscurity 10 years ago to now being a force at the BBC and at England's National Theatre; but at first exposure ...
BWW Review: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD - A New Take That Doesn't Completely Work
William Shakespeare's THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD, currently presented at The Curtain Theatre produced by The Baron's Men, written around 1592 and has been debated in historical circles as often as it has been performed. There has been even more discussion about the iconic play and it's co...
BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH LAURIE GALLARDO & A FEW DARK TALES - A Riveting Performance
KUTX personality, Laurie Gallardo, is one of our city's treasures. On
March 6, 2015 a select audience was invited to an outstanding evening of Austin
icon Gallardo reading several short stories and poems....
BWW Review: CABARET A Dark Glistening Gem
Based on Christopher Isherwood's novella Goodbye to Berlin (1939) and the subsequent 1951 play by John Van Druten entitled I Am a Camera, CABARET is a musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb with a book by Joe Masteroff that opened on Broadway in 1966. The production was a hit that was subsequently made...
BWW Review: BUS STOP an American Classic Done Right
Coming from Kansas and receiving my education there, I have more than a passing familiarity with playwright William Inge. Being born in the small town of Independence, Inge attributed his understanding of human behavior to growing up in a small town environment. The influence of that Kansas childhoo...
BWW Review: 4000 MILES is Warm, Wise and Wonderful
4000 MILES is a dramedy by Amy Herzog. It ran Off-Broadway 2011 - 2012, was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2012 Obie for Best New American Play. The play is a affectionate look at dealing with loss, aging and love told through the relationship of a lost young man making...
BWW Review: TARZAN Swings Into the Heart of Georgetown, TX
The Palace's full time technical director, Ron Watson, directs the musical TARZAN, which can easily be described as technical theatre at its best. The multi-leveled stage, with its large moving set pieces and high platforms brings the audience into the jungle with the gorillas and their unexpected f...
BWW Review: MARIE ANTOINETTE is a Fresh and Imaginative Look at History
Everyone knows what happened to Marie Antoinette… Spoiler Alert: It's not pretty. It also makes intriguing theatre in David Adjmi's MARIE ANTOINETTE, which presents the doomed French queen filtered through the lens of the spoiled entitled rich girl, much like a Nicole Ritchie or a Paris Hilton. H...
BWW Review: Fine Performances Propel THE REALISTIC JONESES
THE REALISTIC JONESES is a play by Will Eno. It opened on Broadway in 2014 after premiering in 2012 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Eno has said that he wrote the play because he 'wanted to really just write a naturalistic and realistic play." What he has created plays more like deeply melancholy sit...
BWW Review: ALICE IN WONDERLAND - A Family Adventure
ZACH Theatre's production of Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND adapted by Katie Bender and Gabrielle Reisman, produced in partnership with Underbelly, is an interactive adventure for the whole family....
BWW Review: TITANIC Thrills in Mac Theatre Production
TITANIC is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It won five Tony Awards including the award for Best Musical. Set on the ocean liner RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912; TITANIC has improved with age. The...
BWW Review: AS YOU LIKE IT - A Blissfully Flawless Production
William Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, by Shrewd Productions and playing at Trinity Street Theatre is a blissful, flawless evening at the theatre....
BWW Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC Delights All Ages
Opening to a warm and receptive full house on Tuesday night, the national tour of the Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic favorite, THE SOUND OF MUSIC proved to be an evening you simply mustn't miss. Whether you are seeking to introduce your child or grandchild to the warm and fami...
BWW Review: A SHINING ATTRIBUTE – Short and Sassy
A SHINING ATTRIBUTE by Candyce Rusk is a one act, solo work that tells the story of Bijou, a spirit that haunts a former burlesque house in Boston's Combat Zone. The Combat Zone was the name given in the 1960's to the adult entertainment district in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. In the early 70's ...
BWW Review: FIRST DATE is a Charming Look at Dating
FIRST DATE THE MUSICAL is a new musical with a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. It's based around the various permutations of blind dating. It made its world premiere in 2012 at Seattle's ACT Theatre in a 5th Avenue Theatre co-production and made its B...
BWW Review: Superb Acting Makes A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Magnificent Drama
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS by Robert Bolt started out as a radio drama for BBC Radio in 1954. It was adapted into an hour-long live television version in 1957 and finally was reworked by Bolt for the stage in 1960. After success on the West End and on Broadway, it was subsequently made into an Academy Aw...
BWW Review: INGA BINGA Sneaking into the Mainstream
Traveling back to 1942, with the world at war and every man and woman yearning to get into the fray, INGA BINGA highlights the J Edgar Hoover era of espionage. Frank Benge reliably directs this devious comedy in its regional debut, showcasing the original play by Julian Wiles. Taking place in an art...
BWW Review: Georgetown Palace Has Got a 'Strange Magic' in XANADU
In the grand tradition of musical parody, Georgetown Palace brings us the lighthearted, all-in-good-jest musical, XANADU. For Valentine's Weekend, The Palace is having a special promotion of $5 off per ticket order if the code XANADU5 is entered at checkout online. With only one weekend left, a tic...
BWW Review: FIXING TIMON OF ATHENS Delivers Modern Parable On Greed
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare is one of his plays that scholars either group with his tragedies or as one of the so-called "problem plays". FIXING TIMON OF ATHENS is part of an on-going attempt by the Rude Mechs to make more accessible and usable pieces of theatre out of the canon of Shakes...
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Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Bastrop Opera House (5/22-5/31) |
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42nd Street Georgetown Palace Theatre (7/24-8/30) |
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Anything Goes Bastrop Opera House (7/17-8/02) |
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